What 繱 means
繱 ties a color description to textile vocabulary.
The meaning of 繱 in old Chinese dictionaries is a textile term: pale blue or blue-white silk, with “fine silk” also recorded. Shuowen, an early Chinese character dictionary, glosses related 𦇎 as blue-green silk; later dictionaries describe fine patterned silk as blue-white or blue-yellow. The shades vary across entries.
How is 繱 connected to 𦇎 and 緫?
繱 belongs to a documented dictionary lineage.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education variant-character dictionary traces 𦇎 to its seal-script form in Shuowen, an older style of writing Chinese, and lists 繱 as its variant. It cites later Chinese dictionaries, including Yupian, Guangyun, and Jiyun; Jiyun also records 緫 as another variant. These are documented written-form relationships.
Rare, literary, and dictionary-like; its historical textile sense is not a casual modern color word.
“Blue” alone drops the silk: this term names cloth as well as shade.
Questions people ask
1Why does 繱 look different on my device?
Different fonts can draw the same character differently or omit it if they lack support. In 2024, Taiwan’s Ministry of Education variant-character dictionary offered separate font display modes for rare forms.
How to type 繱
繱\7E71Codes and encoding1 code points
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